An investigation to compare systematic behavioral observations made live with those made on television was conducted. The study was designed to answer three questions: (1) Is there a difference in the agreement between observers (Os) when both view an event Live and when both view the same event on Television? (2) Is there a difference in…

A project designed to serve two purposes in serving urban children is described. The purposes are: (1) to provide preschool education based on Sesame Street viewing, and (2) to provide an experimental framework to evaluate three possible approaches of parental involvement which might further enhance the gains of children viewing Sesame Street. The…

Children's preference for odors, some of which presumably had marked trigeminal (noxious) effects, was assessed with the use of the method of pair comparison. Although the children, from 4 to 7 years old, were able to discriminate between the intensities of the odors, they were neither attracted nor repelled by them as much as the adults. In other…

This paper presents an evaluation of the Hardin, Montana, School District's Right to Read program. Short descriptions of the results of the evaluation are presented for the areas of paragraph meaning, word meaning, interest/attitude, basic approach, instructional technique, student grouping, availability and skill of reading teachers, nonclassroom…

IEP (Information Exchange Procedures), developed by the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, is a set of standard definitions and procedures for collecting institutional information related to: costs of disciplines and degree programs, outcomes of instructional programs, and general institutional characteristics. This…

The third in the series of Faculty Activity Analysis manuals, Interpretation and Uses of Data, suggests and illustrates a variety of faculty activity information display formats and analysis techniques. In addition to presenting a brief overview of the contents of the second manual, Procedures Manual (Manning and Romney 1973), this document…

Attending the Institute held on March 29-30, 1974 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee were 300 or more administrators, state department officials, project coordinators, teachers, university professors, citizens, and students from throughout the state. The institute's goal was to "impact the development of Bilingual Bicultural Education…

Three mathematical models and their enrollment projections for higher education in Georgia are presented. The first model is an extrapolation of current trends. The second model is a simple linear regression model based on steady growth. The third is a multiple regression model attempting to account for the influences of several variables…

This volume identifies the variables which have been formed from the non-test data collected in NLSMA. The information in this report is a comprehensive description of the NLSMA population in contexts other than mathematics achievement and psychological characteristics. Data were included on school-community characteristics, socioeconomic…

In order to provide meaningful unit cost information, the librarian needs an accurate concept of what data should be measured and why. The dimension which has been conspicuously absent in library statistics is interpretation of the data which is reported, and the correlation of one set of data with another to reach a defensible conclusion. For the…

A data book designed for use by high school seniors to investigate the problems and processes of nation-building in Africa south of the Sahara today has been prepared. The book consists of two parts. Part I contains descriptions of the geographic, social, economic, political, and historical features of 24 sub-Saharan African nation-states. Part II…

This is a research report concerned with the availability of computer programs which made it advisable to try not only the factors dictated by a criterion, but successive additional factors until the meaning of the pattern is clarified. Examples illustrate the application of sequential factor analyses using a principal axes solution and varimax…

Encouraging a broader view of educational evaluation by emphasizing systematic means for the collection and analysis of a wide variety of types of evaluation data at all educational levels, an extension is proposed to the evaluation rationale formulated several years ago by Ralph W. Tyler. The revised model, patterned after the "multiform…

The terms evaluation, assessment, and appraisal are often used interchangeably in research on schools and pupils. Guidelines for their use and some of the similarities and differences in their meanings are explicated. The concept of evaluation is narrowed to refer to use of information on pupil behavior. Four separate components of…

This study was designed to: (1) compare the contribution of various categories of biographical data (biodata) to the differentiation of college attenders and nonattenders, and (2) to assess the accuracy of biodata as a predictor of collete attendance. Subjects consisted of 20,367 high school senior males who participated in the 1960 data…